[236.1] Acle in Norfolk.
[236.2] St. Luke’s Day is the 18th October. The Tuesday after it was the 21st in 1460.
[236.3] Thomas de Kirkeby.
[236.4] Margaret Paston.
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THOMAS PLAITER TO JOHN PASTON[236.5]
To my maister, John Paston, Esquyer.
1460
[OCT. 21]
A[FTER] my most speciall recomendacion, like your maisterchip wete that the office[236.6] is taken at Ocle in lyke forme as Suthwell[236.7] can schew you, for Fraunceys Costard hath sent it hym, and the jentylmen that passed uppon the office wold fynd nor medyll nouther with the tenurs nor ho is next here [heir]. Wherfor if ye wol have other wyse found, Fraunceys Costard hath under take it, but it schal not be by suche men of worchip [as] is yn this. Item, the under-chryf was at Ocle, and ded and sayd to the jentylmen al that ever he cowde to the lette of the matter. And as for Suffolk, I understand they have no warant, so I tarye as yet what cas that ever falle. And if ye wold that I tarye not, that it lyke you by the brynger her of to send me hasty wurd.
I send you the names of the jure here in. Your, Thomas Plaiter.
On a separate paper formerly enclosed in the preceding is the following List:—